ANCIENT AMERICAS

Travelling through Latin America, one is constantly made aware of the fact that people have been here for a very long time, building cities and creating works of art still visible centuries (and in some cases millennia) after the cultures who made them disappeared.

Las Ventanillas De OtuzcoPERU
These “windows” were actually tombs for Cajamarca royalty.

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SacsayhuamanPERU
Contrasts of colour and culture. The rain comes down and the plastic ponchos come out on the giant wet stones of this Inca ruin.

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Cueva de las ManosARGENTINA
13,ooo-year-old stencils of left hands as well as other artwork adorn the walls of this cave in Argentine Patagonia.

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Ciudad PerdidaCOLOMBIA
The “Lost City” is worth every blister and bug bite you’ll collect on the 6-day trek to see it.

BIO

Gareth Collingwood has cycled independently and unsupported through every country in Latin America since the 1990s. He holds degrees in Spanish/Latin American studies and linguistics and is a certified translator and personal trainer. He is currently living and travelling somewhere in Latin America.

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